Stoke on Tern
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Stoke on Tern is a village located in Shropshire, England, on the River Tern. The civil parish is known as Stoke upon Tern.
St Peter's church, Stoke on Tern
The heiresses of the publisher of the Geneva Bible, Alice Corbet, is in the church
It has been speculated that Rowland Hill is the inspiration for Rowland de Bois in As You Like It.
Sir Rowland Hill
Reginald Corbet
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Reginald Corbet was a distinguished lawyer in four reigns across the mid-Tudor period, and prospered throughout, although he seems to have been firmly Protestant in sympathy. He was appointed serjeant
Stoke on Tern
…It and individuals potentially memorialised in that work and others) as well as the project to deliver the Geneva Bible. The monument was raised to Reginald Corbet (d. 1566), a notable lawyer in the Tudor period, and his wife Alice Gratewood. Alice was an heiress of her uncle Sir Rowland Hill of Soulton, who…
Reginald Corbet of Stoke upon Tern (died 1566), a prominent English judge of the mid-Tudor period
Effigy of Sir Robert Corbet, Reginald's father, in St Bartholomew's church, Moreton Corbet
Effigy of Elizabeth Vernon, Reginald Corbet's mother, who long outlived her husband, dying in 1563
Tomb of Reginald's maternal grandparents, Anne Talbot (died 1494) and Henry Vernon (died 1515) in St Bartholomew's church, Tong, Shropshire